“... sea voyage and a few months sailing around the Malay Archipelago would help restore his health and peace of mind. For as well as being trapped in ‘complicated private and professional entanglements’, as one acquaintance put it, he had recently suffered two severe strokes. The first, as he explained in a letter to a friend, deprived him of the use of his ...”

“... Coltrane’s son, gave a stately reading on soprano saxophone of Coleman’s 1959 composition ‘Peace’, with Geri Allen on piano. The tenor saxophonists Joe Lovano and David Murray howled their way through Coleman’s most famous tune, ‘Lonely Woman’. There was a haunting duet between Henry Threadgill, on alto ...”

“... a great honour and privilege for us to be here, representing not only the United States but men of peace of all nations.’ They left behind a plaque inscribed with their names as well as Nixon’s: ‘Here Men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon, July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.’ And when ...”

“... plunged into universal conflict. to our parents then, sad was the change Which them from peace and safety did estrange, Brought universal woe and discord in, The never-failing consequents of sin; Not only made all things without them jar But in their breasts raised up a civil war. According to Anthony à Wood’s Athenae Oxonienses, and Sidney Lee ...”

“... to protest against the incarceration of political activists and were arrested for disturbing the peace, their lawyer argued that there was no peace to breach. In 1986, Marc Sancto, a transgender inmate, was found trying to strangle himself in his cell. An hour later he had hanged himself with his cardigan. In 1995, ...”

“... right to do what it wants grind on: Palestinians are rejectionists and terrorists, Israel wants peace and security, the Arabs won’t accept Israel and want to destroy it, Israel is a democracy, Zionism is (or can be made consonant with) humanism, socialism, liberalism, Western civilisation, the Palestinian Arabs ran away in 1948 because the other Arabs ...”

“... believed it was wrong for boys to want to touch their breasts.’ As for the adults, ‘to have peace with your neighbours you needed to adhere to two unspoken rules: mind your own business and keep up your lawn.’ The men ‘had poker games to think about and promotions at work, they had candy-coloured cars with long fins in their driveways.’ Their ...”

“... the closet. This time, however, there was no formal disbandment and since the mid-Eighties, when David Duke organised his spin-off Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, embittered white Southerners have kept in trim by linking up with one or another of America’s numerous neo-Nazi militia movements. The Twenties obsession with Catholics has again been sidelined. The ...”

“... who wanted me to read verses at a little morning session for foreign poets. ‘Oh, please, Mr David. We only have one Frenchman so far.’ Foolishly I agreed to pipe up if she really ran short of European versifiers. By Easter Sunday we were enjoying an ideal English summer, blue skies and cool breeze. We were feasted, Arab poems were beautifully ...”

“... in the popular iconography of American freedom, alongside comic-book heroes in capes and tights. David McCullough’s biography of John Adams, a federalist president who failed to secure re-election, has sold two million copies since it was published in 2001. For all its sentimental and antiquarian dimensions, the cult of the founders has damaging political ...”

“... war – and even Napoleon’s internment of thousands of Britons caught on French soil after the Peace of Amiens broke down in 1803 – did not break off these contacts, or destroy this sympathy. Napoleon might be emperor of the French, but he was the cultural property of the entire Western ...”

“... English about this. It’s how democracy works. In June 1963, shortly after Profumo quit, David Ben-Gurion, the Israeli prime minister, also resigned, ground down by the consequences of the Lavon affair, Israel’s own spy scandal. This one too was serious: no sex, plenty of violence. Ben-Gurion was accused of covering up his involvement in a botched ...”

“... came out in 1783, the same year as Gillray’s first major political cartoon, Neither War nor Peace, a satire on the Fox-North coalition. Whether in painting or poetry, Blake never dealt minutely with the surface of politics, as Gillray lived by doing, but they shared a boundless curiosity regarding the true and false prophets of a time of revolutionary ...”

“... theme that runs through McTague’s account: European integration might have been conceived as a peace project but its evolution can only be understood through the prism of war. And here, too, Britain found itself unable to square the circle of its conflicting desires.McTague begins​ his story in wartime Algiers, where three men who would spend their ...”

“... feeling that this is so – one medical blogger quoted by Carr laments, ‘I can’t read War and Peace any more.’ The digerati are not impressed by such avowals. ‘No one reads War and Peace,’ responds Clay Shirky, a digital-media scholar at New York University. ‘The reading public has increasingly decided that ...”